Dismal

Russian Meaning

мрачный

унылый

печальный

гнетущий

невыразительный

безотрадный

угрюмый

слабый

English Meaning

  1. Causing gloom or depression; dreary: dismal weather; took a dismal view of the economy.
  2. Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit: a dismal book; a dismal performance on the cello.
  3. Obsolete Dreadful; disastrous.
  4. Chiefly South Atlantic U.S. See pocosin. See Regional Note at pocosin.